AMI Privateers party

Kim Betts and her Gamble Creek Band will perform during the Anna Maria Island Privateers' party at Aces Live in Bradenton. COURTESY PHOTO

The Anna Maria Island Privateers are raising money for their annual Pirate Invasion – it’s in November at Coquina Beach – with a bash at Aces Live in Bradenton.

There will be a dinner buffet with the Privateers, desert, cash bar, "inside the invasion" reports, auctions, raffles, a chance to win a "privateer gift basket" plus a performance by popular country music act Kim Betts and her Gamble Creek Band.